Originally posted by: Pabster
Originally posted by: ProfJohn
Has anyone actually answered the OP yet?
Three things Hillary has accomplished on her own.
Nope. Not a single answer yet.
Somehow, I'm not surprised.
Surprise!
-graduated Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, 1965-1969, Senior Class president,
-Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut, 1969-1973, graduated with honors
-member of the board of editors, Yale Review of Law and Social Action
-Yale Child Study Center, 1973-1974, one post-graduate year of study on children and medicine
-she was active in young Republican groups and campaigned for Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater in 1964
-she worked at various jobs during her summers as a college student, once in a canning factory in Alaska
-in 1970, she secured a grant and first went to work for the Children's Defense Fund.
-worked on Senator Walter Mondale's (Minnesota Democrat) subcommittee on migrant workers, researching migrant problems in housing, sanitation, health and education
-in the summer of 1972, she worked in the western states for the Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern's campaign.
-volunteered at Yale's Child Study Center, learning about new research on early childhood brain development
-did volunteer work at New Haven Hospital, where she took on cases of child abuse and the city Legal Services, providing free legal service to the poor.
-she served as staff attorney for the Children?s Defense Fund in Cambridge, Massachusetts
-served as a member of the presidential impeachment inquiry staff advising the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives during the Watergate Scandal
-became a faculty member of the University of Arkansas Law School, located in Fayetteville, where her Yale Law School classmate and boyfriend Bill Clinton was teaching as well
-mother to Chelsea Victoria Clinton, (born 1980, February 27
-joined the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Arkansas
-appointed by President Jimmy Carter to the board of the Legal Services Corporation in 1978
-became a full partner at the Rose Law Firm
-she was twice named to the list of ?The 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America.?
-she represented and later served on the board of several businesses including TCBY ("Too Good to Be Yogurt"), and Wal-Mart
-First Lady of Arkansas for twelve years
-chaired the Arkansas Educational Standards Committee
-co-founded the Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families
-served on the boards of the Arkansas Children's Hospital, Legal Services, and the Children's Defense Fund
-wrote a weekly newspaper column entitled "Talking It Over."
-head the President's Task Force on Health Care Reform
-helped raise national consciousness about the problem of citizens who lived without any medical insurance and began to address an assortment of other medical problems facing many citizens
-initiated the Children's Health Insurance Program in 1997, a federal effort that provided state support for those children whose parents were unable to provide them with health coverage
-successfully sought to increase the research funding for illnesses such as prostate cancer and childhood asthma at the National Institute of Health
-gave voice to the illnesses that were affecting veterans of the Gulf War, with the possibility of their suffering the toxic side effects of chemical "Agent Orange" used in warfare
-initiated and shepherded the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 to passage
-led a second effort, the Foster Care Independence bill, to help older, unadopted children transition to adulthood
-hosted numerous White House conferences that related to children's health, including early childhood development (1997) and school violence (1999)
-lent her support to programs ranging from "Prescription for Reading," in which pediatricians provided free books for new mothers to read to their infants as their brains were rapidly developing, to nationwide immunization against childhood illnesses
-supported an annual drive to encourage older women to seek a mammography to prevent breast cancer, coverage of the cost being provided by Medicare
-persuaded Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin to convene a meeting of corporate CEOs for their advice on how companies could be persuaded to adopt better child care measures for working families
-helped to create the Department of Justice's Violence Against Women office
-during her trips to Africa (1997), Asia (1995), South America (1995, 1997) and the Central European former Soviet satellite nations (1997, 1998), Hillary Clinton emphasized "a civil society," of human rights as a road to democracy and capitalism.
-one of the few international figures at the time who spoke out against the treatment of Afghani women by Islamist fundamentalist Taliban that had seized control of Afghanistan
-One of the programs she helped create was Vital Voices, a U.S.-sponsored initiative to promote the participation of international women in their nation's political process. One result of the group's meetings, in Northern Ireland, was drawing together women leaders of various political factions that supported the Good Friday peace agreement that brought peace to that nation long at civil war
-was an active supporter of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), often awarding its micro-loans to small enterprises begun by women in developing nations that aided the economic growth in their impoverished communities
-Certainly one of her more important speeches as First Lady addressing the need for equal rights for women was international in scope and created controversy in the nation where it was made: the September 1995 United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China.
-Authored a best-selling book, It Takes a Village
-Grammy award winner
-she initiated the Save America's Treasures program, a national effort that matched federal funds to private donations to rescue from deterioration and neglect, or restore to completion many iconic historic items and sites, including the flag which inspired the Star Spangled Banner, and the National First Ladies Historic Site in Canton, Ohio.
-as part of the Millennium Project which she initiated, monthly lectures that considered both America's past and forecasted its future were held in the East Room, and one of these became the first live simultaneous webcast from the mansion.
-on November 7, 2000, Hillary Clinton became the first First Lady ever elected to public office, winning the U.S. Senate seat from New York State
-sits on four Senate Committees with a total of eight subcommittee assignments: Senate Committee on Armed Services with three subcommittee assignments, on Airland, on Emerging Threats and Capabilities, and on Readiness and Management Support; Senate Environment and Public Works Committee with three subcommittee assignments on Clean Air, Wetlands, Private Property, and Nuclear Safety, on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Water and on Superfund, Waste Control, and Risk Assessment; the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, with two subcommittee assignments, on Aging and on Children and Families; and the Senate Special Committee on Aging.
-after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 on the World Trade Center in downtown New York City, Senator Clinton worked to secure $21.4 billion in funding to assist clean up and recovery, to provide health tracking for first responders and volunteers at Ground Zero and to create grants for redevelopment
-in 2005, she issued two studies that examined the disbursement of federal homeland security funds to local communities and first responders
-Senator Clinton visited American troops in Afghanistan and Iraq during the U.S. war in those nations
-she became a national advocate both in public and in her Senate work on behalf of retaining and improving health and other benefits for veterans.
-led a bipartisan effort to bring broadband access to rural communities
-co-sponsored the 21st Century Nanotechnology Research and Development Act
-included language in the Energy Bill to provide tax exempt bonding authority for environmentally conscious construction projects
-introduced an amendment calling for funding of new job creation to repair, renovate and modernize public schools
-won an extension of Unemployment Insurance, which passed on the first day of the 108th Congress
-a vocal opponent of the Bush Administration's tax cuts
-her memoirs Living History were published in 2003 and sold over 3 million copies both in the U.S. and in other nations
-won re-election to the United States Senate
BTW, I like Joe Biden.